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		<title>Voting, Beauty, and Bodily Autonomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Policy, power, and the body in a democratic moment Politics is rarely abstract for those whose bodies are subject to policy decisions long before the ink dries on legislation. Access to healthcare, the right to travel without scrutiny, economic opportunity, and the freedom to define one’s own body and beauty have always been shaped by systems of power. For Black women — who have navigated centuries of exclusion, marginalization, and governance of the flesh — politics intersects with every facet of daily life, from ballot box to bathroom mirror. Voting measures who participates in governance. Laws about reproductive rights determine]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Happens When Black Women Stop Explaining Ourselves</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Silence, discernment, and the politics of withholding There is a subtle moment — rarely dramatic, often private — when a Black woman decides she will no longer translate herself. She does not withdraw from community. She does not abandon care or joy. What she relinquishes is the reflex to narrate her interior life for public consumption. The reflex to cushion a boundary.To soften a direct answer.To preempt misinterpretation.To convert exhaustion into approachability. Explanation, particularly when demanded rather than invited, is rarely neutral. It is often a form of extraction. In many rooms — professional, social, romantic — Black women are]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shirley Raines: Skid Row&#8217;s Radical Angel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You are still worthy of pleasure, warmth, and tomorrow.&#8221; &#8211; Shirley Raines of Beauty 2 the Streetz Food, with a Crown At dawn on Skid Row, the city is hushed in a way Los Angeles rarely is. Steam lifts from foil lids. The clatter of folding tables echoes between concrete and canvas. And then there is the voice—warm, musical, unmistakably maternal—calling people forward not as a crowd, not as a problem to be managed, but as royalty. Come here, baby. King. Queen. This was Shirley “Ms. Shirley” Raines in her element. Before the algorithms found her. Before the headlines. Before]]></description>
		
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		<title>5 Reasons Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Date a Chef</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed by a local publication and the interviewer asked me what kind of guy I usually date.&#160; My mind immediately screamed &#8220;Chef!&#8221; and, while it sounds sexy, dating a chef is the complete opposite. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve got some ridiculous idea of a tall, dark, handsome culinary god in your head&#8211;sleeves rolled up to reveal perfectly toned forearms, a kitchen towel slung over his shoulder, and a bead of sweat precariously perched over his furrowed brow while he concocts the perfect anniversary dinner.&#160; Every girl has dreamed of her man whipping up a gastronomic feast worthy of]]></description>
		
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		<title>Talkin&#8217; Funny: Kitchen and Life Lessons from My Mama</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My mother has been gone so long, she seems like a figment of my imagination. Almost seventeen years. Seventeen years is a long time. On the days I grieve the most, I can smell her down-home cooking. On my lowest of days, I can still hear her voice. I always loved her, but it took me years to love her voice. * * * I loved my mother fiercely but I took her blatant Southern-ness as a personal affront. The way she would drop the ‘g’ from words like ‘running’ or ‘cooking’ or thought fixin’—as in “I’m fixin’ to go]]></description>
		
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